Author: Daniels, Glenda.
Title: Fight for Democracy. The Anc and the Media in South Africa.
Description: Witwatersrand University Press. Johannesburg 2012. 250pp softcover. As new unused copy. ISBN: 9781868145683 A scrutiny of the ANC's treatment of the print media since the inception of democracy in South Africa in 1994.Examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC and their conflictual relationship. Presents the arguments against the impending clampdown on media freedom witht the trhreat of the Protection of State Information Bill and the media appeals tribunal. Disputes the ANC view that journalists are anti-transformation and that they take instructions from the owners of the media houses, that they are 'capitalist bastards' and 'enemies of the people'.

Keywords: anc politics south southern africa african media